They should have started, on day one, to shoot looters on the spot. That would have made an enormous difference in the entire relationship.
“They should have started, on day one, to shoot looters on the spot. That would have made an enormous difference in the entire relationship.”
It would have been a good idea, to be sure, but in the end, it’s the whole concept of nation-building - that somehow, some way (and with enough money) we can pull an Arab democracy out of a camel’s @ss.